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THE SWEDISH COLONIAL SOCIETY. 
CONSTITUTION. 

Article I. 

This association shall be called " The Swedish Colonial 
Society." 

Article II. 

The object of the Society shall be to collect, preserve, and 
publish records, documents, and other material, printed or in 
manuscript, and to commemorate events relating to the history 
of Swedes in America. ■» 

Article III. 

Any male person over twenty-one years of age, of good char- 
acter, shall be eligible to membership. All members shall be 
elected by the Council, who shall have power to suspend or 
expel any member who in their judgment may have conducted 
himself in an improper manner. 

Article IV. 

The entire management of the affairs of the Society, includ- 
ing the selection of its officers and the adoption of by-laws, shall 
be committed to the Council. The Council shall consist of 
twenty-five Councillors. Officers of the Society who may not be 
Councillors shall be ex officio members of the Council. The 
Councillors shall be elected by the Society at its annual meeting 
for a term of five years, five each year, except that, at the first 
annual meeting, five shall be elected for one year, five for two 
years, five for three years, five for four years, and five for five 
years. The Founders of the Society shall constitute the Council 
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until the first annual meeting of the Society. In case of a va- 
cancy in the Council from any cause, it may be filled by the 
Council until the next annual meeting of the Society. Five 
members of the Council shall constitute a quorum for the trans- 
action of business. 

Article V. 

Amendments to this Constitution may be made at the annual 
meeting of the Society, provided such proposed amendments be 
produced in writing, signed by at least ten members of the 
Society, and notice of the same be filed with the Secretary, and 
mailed to the members thirty days prior to said meeting. A 
three-quarters vote of the members present at the meeting shall 
be required for the adoption of all amendments. 

High Patron, 
His Majesty Gustaf V., King of Sweden. 

Honorary President, 

HisExcellency Count JoHAN Jakob Albert Ehrensvard, 

Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary 

OF Sweden to the United States. 

President, 

Chevalier Marcel A. Viti, 

Royal Vice-Consul of Sweden at Philadelphia. 

First Fice-President and Treasurer. Gregory B. Keen, LL.D. 

Second Vice-President AxEL Petre. 

Third Vice-President John W. Jordan, LL.D. 

Fourth Vice-President Baltzar E. L. de Mare. 

Fifth Vice-President Hon. Henry A. DU Pont. 

Sixth Vice-President Richard M. Cadwalader. 

Secretary Amandus Johnson, Ph.D. 



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Councillors: 

Henry Graham Ashmead, 

Thomas Willing Balch, 

Thomas Francis Bayard, 

Richard M. Cadvvalader, 

Hon. Magnus Clarholm, 

Henry Darrach, 

Baltzar E. L. de Mare, 

Hon. Henry A. du Pont, 

Hon. W. a. F. Ekengren, 

Captain Alfred J. Erickson, 

Prof. Albert Bushnell Hart, Ph.D., LL.D., 

William Macpherson Hornor, 

Amandus Johnson, Ph.D., 

John W. Jordan, LL.D., 

Gregory B. Keen, LL.D., 

Prof. Marion D. Learned, Ph.D., L.H.D., 

Prof. John Bach McMaster, Litt.D., LL.D., 

Thomas L. Montgomery, 

Hon. Samuel W. Pennypacker, LL.D., 

William A. Peterson, 

Axel Petre, 

Hon. Birger Gustaf Adolf Rosentwist, 

Francis J. Roth, Ph.G., D.D.S., 

Hon. Charles Axel Smith, 

Chev. Marcel A. Viti. 

Honorary Members. 

His Excellency Herman Ludvig Fabian de Lagercrantz, Late 
Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of Swe- 
den to the United States, First Honorary President of the 
Society, Stockholm, Sweden. 

Professor Gustaf Oscar Augustin Montellus, Royal Antiquary 
of Sweden, Stockholm, Sweden. 

Carl K. S. Sprinchorn, Ph.D., Malmo, Sweden. 



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Active Members. 

Members and /Associates who are descendants of early Swedish 

settlers on the Delaware River and in its vicinity are 

designated by an asterisk. 



* Henry Eckert Alexander, 
Louis S. Amonson, 

Hon. Carl G. G. Anderberg, 

* Joseph Ashbrook, 

* Louis Ashbrook, 

* Frank M. Ashmead, 
Henry Graham Ashmead, 

* Thomas G. Ashton, M.D., 

* William E. Ashton, M.D., 

* Thomas Willing Balch, 
John Bancroft, 
Samuel Bancroft, Jr., 
William P. Bancroft, 

* John P. Bankson, 

* John Sellers Barnes, 

Hon. Norris S. Barratt, LL.D., 

* Thomas Francis Bayard, 
Alden R. Benson. 

* Edwin N. Benson, Jr., 

* Hugh Stockdell Bird, 
*John B. Bird, 

* Robert Montgomery Bird, 

* Samuel Ashton Bonnaffon, M.D. 

* Jasper Yeates Brinton, 
Hon. William B. Broomall, 

* Rev. Edwin Brown, 

* John Douglass Brown, 

* Edward S. Buckley, Jr., 
*John Bird Burnham, 

John Cadwalader, 

* Richard M. Cadwalader, 



Trenton, N. J. 
Philadelphia, Pa. 
New York, N. Y. 
Philadelphia, Pa. 
Philadelphia, Pa. 
Buffalo, N. Y. 
Chester, Pa. 
Philadelphia, Pa. 
Philadelphia, Pa. 
Philadelphia, Pa. 
Wilmington, Del. 
Wilmington, Del. 
Wilmington, Del. 
Philadelphia, Pa. 
Bryn Mawr, Pa. 
Philadelphia, Pa. 
Wilmington, Del. 
Dover, Del. 
Philadelphia, Pa. 
Williamsburg, Va. 
Wilmington, Del. 
South Bethlehem, Pa. 
Wilmington, Del. 
Philadelphia, Pa. 
Chester, Pa. 
Frederick, Oklahoma. 
Philadelphia, Pa. 
Philadelphia, Pa. 
Essex, N. Y. 
Philadelphia, Pa. 
Philadelphia, Pa. 



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James A. G. Campbell, 

Hon. Hampton L. Carson, LL.D., 

* Thomas Stryker Chambers, 
Hon. Magnus Clarholm, 

* John L. Clawson, 

James Harwood Closson, M.D., 

T. Edward Clyde, 

C. Howard Colket (Life Member), 

Hon. Henry C. Conrad, 

Charles A. Converse, 

Porter Farquharson Cope, 

Hon. Alexander Peterson Corbit, 

* Justice Cox, Jr., 

* Edmund J. D. Coxe, 
George Linden Cutler, 
Henry Darrach, 

* Brig, -Gen. Charles L. Davis, U.S.A. 

(Retired), 

* H. Kent Day, 
Baltzar E. L. de Mare, 
Alfred O. Deschong, 
O, B. Dickinson, 
Alexis I. du Pont, 

* Hon. Henry A. du Pont, 
Pierre S. du Pont, 

T. Coleman du Pont, 
William Ashmead Dyer, 
Howard Edwards, 
Count Johan J. A. Ehrensvard, 
Hon. W. A. F. Ekengren, 

* Alfred Stidham Elliott, 

* George A. Elliott, 

* John Watson Ellmaker, 
Capt. Alfred J. Erickson, 

* George Harrison Fisher, 
♦Henry M. Fisher, M.D., 



Chester, Pa. 
Philadelphia, Pa. 
Trenton, N. J. 
New York, N. Y. 
Philadelphia, Pa. 
Philadelphia, Pa. 
Chester, Pa. 
Philadelphia, Pa. 
Georgetown, Del. 
Philadelphia, Pa. 
Philadelphia, Pa. 
Odessa, Del. 
Bryn Mawr, Pa. 
Philadelphia, Pa. 
Chester, Pa. 
Philadelphia, Pa. 
Schenectady, N. Y. 

Philadelphia, Pa. 
Philadelphia, Pa. 
Chester, Pa. 
Chester, Pa. 
Wilmington, Del. 
Wilmington, Del. 
Wilmington, Del. 
Wilmington, Del. 
Chester, Pa. 
Philadelphia, Pa. 
Washington, D. C. 
Washington, D. C. 
Wilmington, Del. 
Wilmington, Del. 
Lancaster, Pa. 
Philadelphia, Pa. 
Philadelphia, Pa. 
Philadelphia, Pa. 



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Stephen B. Fotterall, 

* Robert Frazer, Jr., 
*John Morton Fultz, 

* John W. Garrett, 
Samuel Garrett, 

* Harry T. Gause, 

* Albert Pepper Gerhard, 

* George S. Gerhard, M.D., 

* William Gerhard, 
George C. Gillespie, 
William Goodrich, 

* Foster C. Griffith, 

* Edward Burd Grubb, 

* Barker Gummere, 
William Penn-Gaskell Hall, 

* Henry J. Hand, 

* William Henry Harper, 

* William Hall Harris, 

*Prof. Albert Bushnell Hart, Ph.D., 
LL.D., 
Le Roy Harvey, 

* Benjamin C. Hatfield, 

* W. Horace Hepburn, Jr., 
T. Allen Hilles, 
William S. Hilles, 

* Arthur Hillman, 

* George M. Holstein, 

* William Macpherson Hornor (Life 

Member), 

* Hon. James H. Huling, 

* Hon. Willis J. Hulings, 

* Francis Nash Iglehart, 

* Rev. Melancthon W. Jacobus, D.D., 
Amandus Johnson, Ph.D., 

Hon. David Marshall Johnson, 
Charles Henry Jones, 



Philadelphia, Pa. 
Washington, D. C. 
Philadelphia, Pa. 
Rome, Italy. 
Philadelphia, Pa. 
Wilmington, Del. 
Overbrook, Pa. 
Philadelphia, Pa. 
Philadelphia, Pa. 
Moorestown, N. J. 
Philadelphia, Pa. 
Trenton, N. J. 
Edgewater Park, N. J. 
Trenton, N. J. 
Philadelphia, Pa. 
Wayne, Pa. 
Philadelphia, Pa. 
Baltimore, Md. 

Cambridge, Mass. 
Wilmington, Del. 
Lancaster, Pa. 
Philadelphia, Pa. 
Wilmington, Del. 
Wilmington, Del. 
Wilkes-Barre, Pa. 
New York, N. Y. 

Bryn Mawr, Pa. 
Charleston, W. Va. 
Oil City, Pa. 
Baltimore, Md. 
Hartford, Conn. 
Philadelphia, Pa. 
Chester, Pa. 
Rydal, Pa. 



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* George M. Jones, 

* Augustus W. Jordan, 

* Ewing Jordan, M.D., 

* John W. Jordan, LL.D., 

* Rev. Walter Jordan, 

* Alfred R. Justice, 

* Barton L. Keen, 

* Charles Barton Keen, 

* Edwin F. Keen, 

* Frederick L. Keen, 

* Gregory B. Keen, LL.D., 

* Harold Perot Keen, 

* Harry Highlands Keen, 

* Harry R. Keen, 

* James Stiles Keen, 

* James Watt Keen, M.D., 

* Joseph S. Keen, 

* Joseph S. Keen, Jr., 

* Kennard G. Keen, 

* Hon. Oscar Keen, 

* Walter L. Keen, 

♦William W. Keen, M.D., LL.D., 
Ph.D. (Upsal.), 

* Edward W. Keene, 

* George Frederick Keene, 
Charles P. Keith, 
Charles Albert Kindberg, 

* Ernest Law, 
William H. Lambert, 
J. Granville Leach, 

Prof. Marion D. Learned, Ph.D., 
L.H.D., 

* George M. Lehman, 
Charles Ramsay Long, 

* James Barton Longacre, 
♦John M. Longacre, 



Reading, Pa. 
Merchantville, N. J. 
Philadelphia, Pa. 
Philadelphia, Pa. 
Philadelphia, Pa. 
Philadelphia, Pa. 
Philadelphia, Pa. 
St. Davids, Pa. 
Philadelphia, Pa. 
Philadelphia, Pa. 
Philadelphia, Pa. 
Bellevue, Del. 
Ridley Park, Pa. 
Lansdowne, Pa. 
Philadelphia, Pa. 
Philadelphia, Pa. 
Philadelphia, Pa. 
Bellevue, Del. 
Ardmore, Pa. 
Newark, N. J. 
Syracuse, N. Y. 

Philadelphia, Pa. 
Philadelphia, Pa. 
Philadelphia, Pa. 
Philadelphia, Pa. 
Brooklyn, N. Y. 
St. Davids, Pa. 
Philadelphia, Pa. 
Philadelphia, Pa. 

Philadelphia, Pa. 
Pittsburgh, Pa. 
Chester, Pa. 
Philadelphia, Pa. 
Philadelphia, Pa. 



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Henrik V. von Zernicow Loss, 

* J. Gibson McCall, 

* Andrew H. McClintock, 

* Jacob Y.McConnell, 

Prof. John Bach McMaster, LItt.D., 

LL.D., 
Josiah Marvel, 
Philip Marvel, M.D., 

* E, Thomas Massey, 

* Levi Mattson, 

W. Nelson Mayhew, 

* Dudley Tyng Mervine, 

* William M. Mervine, 

Caleb J. Milne (Life Member), 

* Henry Eglinton Montgomery, 

* Thomas L. Montgomery, 

John T. Morris (Life Member), 
David W. Myhrman, Ph.D., 

* Arthur E. Newbold, 

* Clement B. Newbold, 

* Thomas Earp Newbold, 



*Hugh M. North, Jr., 
Josef B. Nylin, M.D., 
S. Davis Page, 

* David W. Patterson, 
Garnett Pendleton, 

* Hon. Samuel W. Pennypacker, LL.D., 

* Charles Penrose Perkins, 

* Penrose R. Perkins, 

* Arthur Peterson, 

* George Peterson, 
William A. Peterson, 
Axel Petre, 



Philadelphia, Pa. 
Philadelphia, Pa. 
Wilkes-Barre, Pa. 
Darby, Pa. 

Philadelphia, Pa. 

Wilmington, Del. 

Atlantic City, N. J. 

Massey, Md. 

Philadelphia, Pa. 

Philadelphia, Pa. 

Kansas City, Mo. 

Edgewater Park, N. J. 

Philadelphia, Pa. 

New York, N. Y. 

Harrisburg, Pa. 

Philadelphia, Pa. 

Upsala, Sweden. 

Philadelphia, Pa. 

Jenkintown, Pa. 

"Brookdale," Chester- 
field Tp., Burling- 
ton Co., N. J. 

Columbia, Pa. 

Philadelphia, Pa. 

Philadelphia, Pa. 

Charleston, W. Va. 

Chester , Pa. 

Pennypacker's Mills, 
Pa. 

Philadelphia, Pa. 

Philadelphia, Pa. 

Overbrook, Pa. 

Ardmore, Pa. 

Chicago, 111. 

Philadelphia, Pa. 



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Hon. William Potter, 
S, H. Pousette, 
Howard Pyle, 

* Ormond Rambo, 

* Nathan Rambo, 

* Wayne P. Rambo, 

William Brooke Rawle (Life Mem- 
ber), 
John Reilly, Jr., 

* Albert L. Richardson, 
Hon. Harry A. Richardson, 
Joseph G. Rosengarten, LL.D., 
Hon. Birger G. A. Rosentwist, 
Francis J. Roth, Ph.G., D.D.S., 

* Henry P. Rumford, 

* Henry Martyn Rumsey, 
Julius F. Sachse, Litt.D., 
Edward S. Say res, 
William I. Schaffer, 

* Edwin Jaquett Sellers, 

* Howard Sellers, 
Rev. Snyder B. Simes, 

* John Henry Sinex, 

* Justus Sinexon, M.D., 

* Charles Sinnickson, 

* Hon. Clement Hall Sinnickson, 

* George R. Sinnickson, 
A. Lewis Smith, 
Benjamin H. Smith, 
Hon. Charles Axel Smith, 

* Edmund A. Souder, 

* Ralph Souder, 

* S. Ashton Souder, 
*Willard Springer, M.D., 

Hon. William C. Sproul, 

* William Corbit Spruance, Jr., 



Philadelphia, Pa. 
Washington, D. C. 
Wilmington, Del. 
Philadelphia, Pa. 
Bridgeport, Pa. 
Philadelphia, Pa. 

Philadelphia, Pa. 
Salem, N. J. 
Baltimore, Md. 
Dover, Del. 
Philadelphia, Pa. 
Boston, Mass. 
Philadelphia, Pa. 
Wilmington, Del. 
Salem, N. J. 
Philadelphia, Pa. 
Philadelphia, Pa. 
Chester, Pa, 
Philadelphia, Pa. 
Millbourne, Pa. 
Philadelphia, Pa. 
Edgewater Park, N-J. 
Philadelphia, Pa. 
Rosemont, Pa. 
Salem, N. J. 
Paoli, Pa. 
Media, Pa. 
Philadelphia, Pa. 
Minneapolis, Minn. 
Philadelphia, Pa. 
Philadelphia, Pa. 
Overbrook, Pa. 
Wilmington, Del. 
Chester, Pa. 
Wilmington, Del, 



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Hon. William H. Staake, 
George Steinman, 

* Joseph A. Steinmetz, 

* Ewing Stille, 
Edward A. Stockton, 

* Thomas P. Stokes, 
Adam J. Strohm, 

* Samuel S. Stryker, M.D., 

* Adam A. Stull, 
James M. Swank, 
Frank Gould Sweeney, 
Emil Swensson, 

* Joseph Swift, 

* William Henry Swift, 

* William H. Taylor, 

* Hon. Douglas H. Thomas, 
Hon. Charlemagne Tower, LL.D., 
Rev. C. H. B. Turner, 

* William Fitzhugh Turner, 
Elwood Tyson, 

Count Ludvig af Ugglas, 

Alexander Van Rensselaer, 

Charles Harrod Vinton, M. D. (Life 

Member) , 
Chev. Marcel A. Viti, 

* Francis King Wainwright, 
John Warner, 

Eben Boyd Weitzel, 
William R. Wenstrom, 

* Richard Wetherill, 

* Andrew Wheeler, 

* Arthur L. Wheeler, 

* Charles Wheeler, 

* Walter S. Wheeler, 

* Kingston G. Whelen, 

* WiUiam Baker Whelen, 



Philadelphia, Pa. 
Lancaster, Pa. 
Philadelphia, Pa. 
Philadelphia, Pa. 
Philadelphia, Pa. 
Philadelphia, Pa. 
Trenton, N. J. 
Philadelphia, Pa. 
Ardmore, Pa. 
Philadelphia, Pa. 
Chester, Pa. 
Pittsburgh, Pa. 
Wilmington, Del. 
Wilmington, Del. 
Somerville, N. J. 
Baltimore, Md. 
Philadelphia, Pa. 
Lewes, Del. 
San Francisco, Cal. 
Chester, Pa. 
Washington, D. C. 
Camp Hill, Pa. 



Atlantic City, 

Philadelphia, 

Philadelphia, 

Wilmington, 

Ridley Park, 

Philadelphia, 

Chester, Pa. 

Philadelphia, 

Philadelphia, 

Bryn Mawr, 

Philadelphia, 

Philadelphia, 

Devon, Pa. 



N.J. 

Pa. 

Pa. 

Del. 

Pa. 

Pa. 

Pa. 
Pa. 
Pa. 
Pa. 
Pa. 



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Rev. Hans Luther Wilson, 

* Howard Sellers Worrell, 

* Goodloe H. Yancey, 

* Prof. Albert Duncan Yocum, Ph.D., 

* Howard H. Yocum, 

* Isaac C. Yocum, 

* Thomas Jones Yorke, Jr., 

* Jacob Stanley Ziegler, 

* Thomas Marshall Ziegler, 
♦Walter M. L. Ziegler, M.D., 



Greensburg, Pa. 
Philadelphia, Pa. 
Atlanta, Ga. 
Chester, Pa. 
Philadelphia, Pa. 
Swarthmore, Pa. 
Salem, N. J. 
Washington, D. C. 
Richmond, Va. 
Philadelphia, Pa. 



Associates. 

* Clara Augusta Alexander, 

* Mildred Sellers Almy, 

* Margaret Ross Bell, 

* Ellen D. C. Bennett, 

* Mary J. B. Chew, 
Martha B. Clark, 
Anne H. Cresson, 
Mary McCalla Evans, 

* Julia V. Finney, 

* Daisy Elizabeth Brooke Grubb, 
Charles Hallberg, 

Samuel Hammond, 

* Ethel Hand, 

* Ulande F. Hersperger, 

* Caleb Wright Piornor, 

* James Crawford Hornor, 

* Julia Maria Washington Hornor, 

* Peter Townsend Hornor, 

* William Macpherson Hornor, Jr., 

* Lucy K, Johnston, 

* Caroline Tyler Lea, 

* Mary Elizabeth Libbey, 

* Mary Elizabeth Libby, 



Philadelphia, Pa. 
Philadelphia, Pa. 
Goldfield, Nevada. 
Philadelphia, Pa. 
Philadelphia, Pa. 
Lancaster, Pa. 
Philadelphia, Pa. 
Philadelphia, Pa. 
Caldwell, Idaho. 
Lancaster, Pa. 
Ottumwa, Iowa. 
Boston, Mass. 
Philadelphia, Pa, 
Sewickley, Pa. 
Bryn Mawr, Pa. 
Bryn Mawr, Pa. 
Bryn Mawr, Pa. 
Bryn Mawr, Pa. 
Bryn Mawr, Pa. 
Philadelphia, Pa. 
Philadelphia, Pa. 
Princeton, N. J. 
Summit, N. J. 



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Frances S. Locke, 

* Mary C. Marts, 

* Josephine de Teisseire Monges, 
Clementine Gould Newbold, 



* Harriet Hendrickson O'Brien, 

* Ella Parsons, 

* Mary Yancey Phinizy, 

* Hester Dorsey Richardson, 

* Frances K. Roach, 
C. L. Seaquist, 

* Saida Bird Smith, 

* Mary V. Hawthorne Steinmetz, 

* Virginia M, Struthers, 

* Sara Burnside Valentine, 



Chester, Pa. 

New York, N. Y. 

Philadelphia, Pa. 

"Brookdale," Chester- 
field Tp., Burling- 
ton Co., N. J. 

Clarksboro, N. J. 

Philadelphia, Pa. 

Augusta, Ga. 

Baltimore, Md. 

Evansville, Ind. 

Portland, Oregon. 

Baltimore, Md. 

Lancaster, Pa. 

Philadelphia, Pa. 

Bellefonte, Pa. 



* Edward S. Buckley, 

* Philip S. P. Conner (Life Member), 
*John S. Gerhard, 

Israel W. Morris, 

* Joseph H. Springer, 
Hon. J. N. Wallem, 

* S. Bowman Wheeler, 

* Charles S. Whelen, 



Deceased Members. 

Philadelphia, Pa. 
Rowlandsville, Md. 
Overbrook, Pa. 



Philadelphia, Pa. 
Wilmington, Del. 
Philadelphia, Pa. 
Philadelphia, Pa. 
Philadelphia, Pa. 



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